NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program and aeronautics and space research.
It was established in 1958. NASA’s Headquarters is in Washington, D.C.
Since its establishment, most U.S. space exploration efforts have been led by NASA, including the Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle.
NASA’s InSight is one day away from Mars
InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first...
Hubble captures stars across generations
The large-scale structure of the Universe is made up of voids and filaments, that can be broken down into superclusters, clusters, galaxy groups, and...
NASA InSight landing on Mars
On Nov. 26, NASA's InSight spacecraft will blaze through the Martian atmosphere and attempt to set a lander gently on the surface of the...
Huge crater discovered hiding beneath ice sheet
An international team of scientists has recently discovered a 19 miles wide impact crater of vast proportions hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice...
Probing the plume
Mounted on a pivoting arm in a space simulation vacuum chamber, two tests gather information from the exhaust plume of a Hall Effect Thruster...
NASA announces landing site for Mars 2020 Rover
It's been numerous years really taking shape, however, NASA's Mars 2020 wanderer mission is right now in the home stretch. Researchers and engineers are...
New map showing camp fire damage in Northern California
As firefighters keep on fighting the dangerous Camp Fire in Northern California, the Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) group at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
Astronomers captured a cosmic Jellyfish
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured the gravitational influence of a massive galaxy cluster called SDSS J1110+6459. The shape of this galaxy, as a...
New discovery shows glass made from exploding stars
Most of the chemicals that in our planet and our bodies were formed directly by stars. Now, a new study using observations by NASA's...
NASA keeps watch over space explosions
In near-space, everything seems calm but not always. Now and then the scanty particles and vitality there, offers a considerable show: a single mighty explosion,...
The most luminous galaxy is eating its neighbors
Discovered in 2015, the galaxy, called WISE J224607.55-052634.9, is by no means the largest or most massive galaxy. It emits 350 trillion times the luminosity of...
NASA make unexpected discovery under Greenland ice
A worldwide group of analysts, including a NASA glaciologist, has found a substantial shooting star affect pit stowing away underneath in excess of a...